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1、Part OnePreparation1. What Is Creativity?1. What Is Creativity?2. Creativity and Inventions2. Creativity and Inventions3. Whats My Line?3. Whats My Line?4. Optical Illusion and Imagination4. Optical Illusion and Imagination5. Quotations5. QuotationsPart One: Preparation What Is Creativity?1. What Is

2、 Creativity?1. What Is Creativity?Read the following paragraph about creativity. Then discuss in groups what is meant by “being creative”. Creativity is the ability to learn from Nature and to use ones imagination. Both of these are full of wonders that are most probably incomparable. There is no do

3、ubt that man first began to learn from natural things and natural phenomena in order to survive and later on for a better living. The airplane is an example known to everybody. Man had imagined flying with wings in the sky like a bird for thousands of years before the airplane was invented. Yet, des

4、pite mans enormous efforts to imitate Nature, he has never completely conquered it. In other words, theres a long way to go before man can definitely declare that hes the most intelligent and creative force in the world.Part One: Preparation What Is Creativity?One can think and do things in an unusu

5、al way.One can think of things that others cannot.One can solve problems in a simple and original way.“Being creative” meansSamplePart One: Preparation What Is Creativity?To be continuedBeing creative is not limited to scientists or artists. Actually, ordinary people also do creative work in their l

6、ives. It is carried on all the time by amateur inventors who find new and more convenient ways of doing everyday things. For example, the paper clip was invented by a man who kept losing his paperwork. Thanks to his own invention, hes now very well organized.Part One: Preparation What Is Creativity?

7、Part One: Preparation Creativity and Inventions2. Creativity and Inventions2. Creativity and InventionsDescribe how the following inventions represent creative ways of doing everyday things. You might first consider the things they replaced. A sample description is given below for your reference. ty

8、pewriter calculator lightbulb ballpoint pen refrigerator The typewriter took the place of pens and pencils. With a typewriter we can “write” more quickly and clearly and in a more formal way. Yet it has been replaced by the computer. The advantage of the computer over the typewriter is obvious. Its

9、multi-functional and has made writing even easier and more convenient by allowing us to easily modify whatever we have written down.A Sample Description Part One: Preparation Creativity and InventionsThe lightbulb replaced candles, lamps and torches. With a lightbulb, we can produce light with elect

10、ricity, which is cleaner, and more convenient than candles and lamps, etc.SamplesThe calculator replaced mental calculations, tables and the abacus. The results are more accurate, the problems can be worked out more quickly, and complex operations with large sums can be done easily.Part One: Prepara

11、tion Creativity and InventionsTo be continuedThe refrigerator replaced other ways of preserving food such as ice, salt and drying. It enables people to keep meat, fish, vegetables and other foods fresh for many days.The ballpoint pen replaced pen and ink. It is more convenient, easier to carry and o

12、ften neater.Part One: Preparation Creativity and InventionsPart One: Preparation What is My Line?3. Whats My Line?3. Whats My Line?The following drawings are composed of English letters which spell the names of the six occupations listed below. Match the drawings with their appropriate occupations.

13、The Occupations:ARTIST ACTOR WAITER BUTCHER BANKER ACTRESSPart One: Preparation What is My Line?ACTRESSWAITERARTISTTo be continuedThe Occupations:ARTIST ACTOR WAITER BUTCHER BANKER ACTRESSPart One: Preparation What is My Line?BUTCHERBANKERACTORPart One: Preparation Optical Illusion and Imagination4.

14、 Optical Illusion and Imagination4. Optical Illusion and ImaginationLook at the following drawing from every possible angle and try to relate it to the real things in your lives. A possible example of imagination is given below for your reference.An Example of Imagination To me, it seems to be an ex

15、hibition hall in a museum. Though its not spacious, its full of masterpieces of the worlds greatest artists, for example, Pablo Picassos Guernica, Vincent van Goghs sunflower, and Claude Monets water lilies. A days stay there will bring an art lover great satisfaction and enjoyment.Part One: Prepara

16、tion Optical Illusion and ImaginationLooking forward:a platform, a key of a key-board, the back side of the TV, the roof of a building, a chocolate, a pyramid in South AmericaLooking inside:a room, a door, a window, a basket, a part of a corridor, a passage, a chimneySamplePart One: Preparation Opti

17、cal Illusion and ImaginationLooking flat:a handkerchief with plain shapes, a screen hanging on the wallLooking from the upper side:a box, a cubePart One: Preparation QuotationsEvery act of creation is first an act of destruction. Pablo Picasso 5. Quotations5. QuotationsI am always doing what I can n

18、ot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. Pablo Picasso 我一直在做力所不能及的事，那是為了學會我一直在做力所不能及的事，那是為了學會如何去做。如何去做。 畢加索畢加索任何創(chuàng)造性的行為首先是毀壞性的行為。任何創(chuàng)造性的行為首先是毀壞性的行為。 畢加索畢加索To be continuedPart One: Preparation QuotationsTo exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessl

19、y. Henri Bergson存在是為了改變，改變是為了成長，成長存在是為了改變，改變是為了成長，成長是為了不斷創(chuàng)造自我。是為了不斷創(chuàng)造自我。 亨利亨利伯格森伯格森To be continuedPart One: Preparation QuotationsIm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life. Miles Davis我總想著創(chuàng)新。我的未來始于每天我總想著創(chuàng)新

20、。我的未來始于每天清晨睡夢初醒之時。每天我都在自清晨睡夢初醒之時。每天我都在自己的生活中找到富有創(chuàng)造性的事情己的生活中找到富有創(chuàng)造性的事情來做。來做。 邁爾斯邁爾斯戴維斯戴維斯To be continuedPart One: Preparation QuotationsThe secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. Albert Einstein 創(chuàng)造力的秘決是知道如何隱藏起你擁有的可供研究的原始創(chuàng)造力的秘決是知道如何隱藏起你擁有的可供研究的原始資料。資料。 阿爾伯特阿爾伯特愛因斯坦愛因斯坦To be continuedPart One: Preparation QuotationsDo not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. Bertrand Russell 不要擔心觀點不合常規(guī)，因為當今世人已接受的觀點都曾被不要擔心觀點不